[Python-Dev] PEP 8: Discourage named lambdas?

[Georg Brandl]

Christian Heimes schrieb:
> Steven schrieb:
>> Speaking as one of those "some people", my position is that functions
>> created with lambda are first-class objects the same as everything else
>> in Python, and a rule that says "You must not assign a lambda to a
>> name, ever" would be a terrible rule.
> 
> PEP 8 is for the standard library and Python core only. You can write
> your own code like you prefer. Nobody is going to enforce the PEP 8
> style guide unless you write code for the stdlib.

Well, most sane people I know use it at least as a strong guideline for their
own code as well, so we should always consider the impact when changing PEP 8.

This specific case though is a good guideline to have.

Georg

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